u will have to pay him in the precious metals he extracts due to the cost of labor and chemicals he uses...0-o and end up owing HIM $$ if he makes a vid about it just from the time spent editing XDDD best just open an illegal mine in Africa, that's profitable...although somewhat immoral
Aatu Vaan I’m not a watch maker but I want to fucking die, that date just is very rare, the mother of all pearl dial with the diamond hour markers and diamond bezel is a rare piece to come by :(
When the test reactor was still operational at UVA my physics class took a field trip there and I supplied a hair sample from my beard for neutron bombardment analysis and there was in fact gold in my beard! : )
Cody reads the letter and it is talking about finding how much precious metals it may have can he find out and is there any way to recover those metals so he does this whole experiment getting the metals Then later notices writing on the back of the letter he did not read before Yes we would like to know how much the precious metals are worth as we are going to have it repaired for $300 and wondered it it will be worth that and if not it is a treasured family hairloom so we will keep it anyway if it is too expensive to fix LOL Hears a scream from cody's house ... DOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I didn't read that part LOL
Leaving watchmaking aside, your chemistry knowledge had just earned my subscription. Coming as a watch enthusiast, I do understand that the value of a watch is not based on the value of the raw material. More so for precious metal watches. To what extend is the question. This video will not generalize all brands/models but it does give us an insight. Thank you for uploading.
Those diamonds appeared to be around 0.10ct. It's hard to tell in the video but they were probably Imperfect grade i3M to i3O. That means they'd be around $40 - $75 a piece. They looked very pink in the video, and I counted 50 of them. So you'd have at least $2500 in diamonds if they were $50 a piece i3O quality. However, diamonds have an incredibly low resale value. So if you brought them in to a jewelry shop they'd probably give you less than $1000 for them all.
I'd be surprised if you could sell the diamonds for more than a couple hundred dollars. Diamonds aren't rare to begin with and the ones they use for this purpose are generally pretty low quality. All they have to do is sparkle.
What is i30? Do you mean I3? Even if they were D/I3 diamond max rap is 35 each, I don’t know where are pricing diamonds but you’re 100% wrong. Secondly, the diamonds are not even close to .10ct each. This is a Rolex Oyster Perpetual Datejust, looks like a men’s 41mm. That means the bezel is approximately 128 mm around, with 50 diamonds the largest stones you could fit would be 2.5 mm each - or .05 carats. Lastly, this is a diamond bezel on a Rolex. Rolex is not going to use subpar I3 goods. These are almost 100% VS+ goods with G+ color. Quit spouting garbage.
@@hunterbrown9152 Rolex is the lowest grade haute horlogerie. They are just a click above ETA driven timepieces, which by some watchmakers are still considered better. That being said you can't rate the diamonds by what their slapped on (although they are definitely not cutting tool grade either)...
Sketch1994 Go buy a Rolex and tell me what the goods look like. You won’t find I clarity goods in Cartier pieces, you won’t find them on a Rolex. It would diminish the appearance of value and luxury. People don’t buy a Rolex anymore because it keeps great time, I have a cell phone if I want to keep track of time. It’s conspicuous consumption, that’s it. I understand what you’re saying. I’m aware of where Rolex stands in the watch community. It is still a luxury piece, with luxury goods, with a luxury price tag.
I'll let you know before I even watch this. Rolex's are mostly stainless steel. The money is in the quality of manufacture and the attention to detail, not the materials, especially a base model like this one.
@@christianheichel Yep, Rolex prices are pretty nuts. I really want one but I'll have to finish my Ph.D. and probably work a few years and probably hold off on kids if I want to make it happen, haha.
Agent J I definitely don't think that those prices have something to do with extreme accuracy and/or durability, that's why I'm asking. I only know of their existence because corrupted Russian officials *really* like wearing $500000+ watches :D
@@tinldw Automatic watches are definitely not known for their accuracy or their durability. A very expensive watch like that is probably mostly brand name value and only then priced on rarity, the craftsmanship of the movement mechanisms, precious metals and gems, stuff like that. No expensive watch like that ever beats way cheaper watches in terms of functionality.
No the watches value is not in the precious metal but the movement and craftsmanship, the gold and diamonds only appeal to the rappers ect and add a little onto the value
They are worthless. You can buy them for way less than a dollar per piece. A usual automatic watch uses about 17 jewels. A luxury watch with date usually not more than 34. So it might be about 24 for the Rolex, which concludes in roughly about 20 dollar if they were new.
Goodness me! I could watch you for hours. You're so skilled at so many things. I'm going to make sure i show my daughter this one, she wants to be a scientist. Thanks for all your great videos.
no not really a fair comparison. A Mercedes is a well made vehicle that is noticeable different in regards to its engineering, drive, performance, ex... A rolex is nothing like that. It tells time, no more accurately or better than a $5 watch. People assume it has thousands of $$ in precious metals or diamonds to make it hold its value
@UCcolT5UQWfhjdKI5Wyu_o6Q over analysing piece of shit. It was painfully obvious he was refering to the concept of the video and the breakdown not the use of the item
Quite an amazing demonstration. Learned lots from it and I will never look at a Rolex watch in the same way again. It is amazing how little gold was actually in it. Reminds me of the old sayings, “All that glitters isn’t gold.” Five thumbs up. 👍👍👍👍👍 Mark
@@misium sweet fancy moses! I laughed way too hard at that whole comment. My ten-year-old calls those dad jokes but somehow, despite it being over the internet, your comedic timing was perfect.
He wants to get explosive licenses before fooling with it. It's also incredibly played out. Why the hell do people continually ask about that series when he's addressed it multiple times?
The reason it is $7k, it not in the materials. It is in the craftsmanship and the quality. The gold Rolex uses is always 18K gold and the steel is a Rolex's own 904L steel, that is made to look ekstra special when polished. There is also the MOP dial with diamond hour marks and a fully encrusted bezel with diamonds, that of course adds up in the value. You also pay for the name Rolex, but that DateJust is actually worth a bit more than $7k, since their watches are highly sought of.
I'm pretty sure everyone knows this. Without the name behind it, it's not a 7k watch just as gucci and prada etc. would be valued far less. This video is strictly about the material value, or did you get confused?
@@DeedlyDood More about the fact there have been around 10 different educated people working to make that watch. Also it takes around a year to complete the watch, that is also an expense you are paying for. The testing of the watch lasts a week. You are mostly paying for quality.
It takes Rolex about a week to build a watch from cutting the blanks to ebauche to decoration and plating. They produce over a thousand a day. When they say it took a year to make a watch they're talking about development.
I don’t know if you still get notifications if someone comments on a older video. But I’ve watched most of all your work. My uncle taught the jewelry business. But yet he died before telling how to get the chemicals. How do you get the chemicals that you you use? Does it take a special permit or degrees, etc?? I would greatly appreciate it if you could take a moment to let me know. If you get this message. Thanks again for all your work in the videos!! You’re awesome!! I had little chem set as a child and wanted to be a chem professor. But life changes, especially when parents no longer care for one another so does your priorities change. But that’s old news. If you don’t mind answering these questions, I really do appreciate your time to answer them! Again thanks for the videos!! Keep them coming and keep up the great work you do for the wannabes out here, lol! If I wasn’t struggling to take care of my family, I would most definitely donate to your channel because it’s one of the few that are legitimate!! Thanks Charles
After yet another warning about the danger of excessive tuna consumption I couldn't help but wonder, "how many cans of tuna would it take to get an amount you can see", and you are the only human I am aware of that may find the answer interesting, and perhaps challenging. Really enjoy your work.
Paying for the best comes at a premium, but some people rolling in the dough won't even miss that money for a second. Whatever floats their boat, I say. Live and let live.
@Adam Defibaugh Theres a lot of factors that determine the value of a watch. Theres certainly not $7000 worth material there but that's not all your paying for.
Robin Lundqvist if you think about it $500 for the gold and $2k for the diamonds and you have to pay someone to make the watch by hand so really i can see the justification for the price. Also you can get this Rolex fro probably around $4k if u wanted.
max med it does not “transport you around town just like a Honda Civic”. Not even freaking close. Have you ever driven a Rolls? Ever taken a ride in a Rolls?
The copper wire method you used to extract the silver reminds me of my hs chem class. My chem teacher had a dehydrator to dry off the silver and almost burned the school down because she left it on over the weekend. Always a pleasure to watch another video Cody!
To recover the silver, you should have put the AgCl into NaOH solution until it turns black, forming Ag2O. Then add sugar and get a large exotherm. Result is silver powder. To prevent silver evaporating, melt borax in the crucible and drop the prewarmed silver into it. Regarding silver and ammonia: such solutions on standing form explosive mixtures, (solver azide) especially on standing!
@@mihaimera7837 Funny cause I got it while english is clearly non my native language ;) First time I hear that clock != watch. I guess they are pretty similar, no?
@@ZElTGElST In American English (no clue about British English) - Clocks are the time telling devices you hang up on the walls or leave on your nightstand, Watch(es) are the time telling devices you wear commonly on your wrist or body. Hope that clarifies :).
@@QuackZack >wrist or body i've never seen anybody wear a watch anywhere other than their wrist also to expand a little, watch faces are typically small (somewhere between 1 and 2 inches in diameter) while clocks are bigger than that, 6+ inches in diameter and 2x4x8 inches for a digital clock without any fancy designs edit: spacing
Diamonds are probably worth very little, no one wants to buy them because the price is artificially inflated by the diamond industry. They aren't too terribly rare.
You are correct Rhett having a Vietnam flashback. De Beers has a complete monopoly on the whole diamond industry. They're not even slightly rare. People want diamonds for veeeery slimy business tactics.
Another UA-camr would have made a 2 part series, each 10 minutes long of just making the furnace. For Cody, it's just filler content at the end. Love your channel man!
I am a beginner watch repair hobbyist and I posted this video to a Facebook group full of professionals and OH BOY did some of them freak out over this! I should mention that I recently paid $150 for one "Third wheel" gear for an old Caliber 59 Rolex movement, so there is much more value/ worth in a watch like that in selling any good parts (or actually having the watch repaired) than there is in precious metal and gemstone recovery. It looked to me like about 1.5 carats of pretty nicely faceted gems. I understand it was sacrificed in the name of science and I posted the video to FB for general interest to any jewelers who might have their own scrap meals to process, but the overwhelming reaction was the watch should have been repaired and it's destruction was a desecration of some kind. I myself think bejeweled Rolex's are ugly AF and good riddance to it.
"Did you send Cody that rock we cut apart to analyze what's in it?" "Yep, also sent that watch you inherited in to be repaired". At the watch maker "Why would they send me a cut apart rock?"
Cody, Every time I think you couldn't come up with a cooler idea than your last video, you surprise me. I'm into metallurgy and I just love your videos! You deserve every view. You work very hard studying, doing Science, thinking about video ideas and editing videos, that nobody sees. Thank you for making these videos!
In the game Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, you can make an electric furnace using heating elements and structural bits. I'd always wondered just how realistic that was. I know it wasn't the intent of this video, but thanks for answering that question, too, Cody.
Diamonds are not actually as valuable as jewellers would have you believe. They wouldn't sell for a whole lot unless you could find a buyer as naive as a middle aged woman
One of my neighbors is a partner in a large jewelry store. He routinely travels to Europe and New York to buy diamonds. He said that the wholesale value of the diamonds used by Rolex when purchased in bulk are about $3 each.
These models pre 2005( for the datejust that is) have hollow centerlinks. The new ones are solid. Even the 16710 and 16750 gmt models ( ended in 2008) have hollow steel centerlinks
From what I can find, there are 48 bezel diamonds, plus the 10 dial diamonds. Rolex doesn't like to give exact diamond info for their watches. They're probably 0.02 carat diamonds, supposedly of fairly high quality. They should weigh 0.22g total. If you were buying them (and it's hard to find prices for loose diamonds that small) you might pay $20 each. The diamond market being what it is, you might be able to sell them for $20 total.
Diamonds are worthless at that size. Even most pawn shops won't take em. 1 karat and up at a Leo grade might be worth something. The saying diamonds are forever is true. There is a an abundance of them and they don't go anywhere. Plus the industrial use for diamonds is very low. The only way to make real money with diamond is size. Most diamonds aren't large so to harvest larger diamonds means rarity which means money.
Arbbym9er Diamonds are worthless. If you think I’m wrong go buy some from a jeweler then walk back in and attempt to sell them back. They won’t buy them from you or if they do you might get 5% what you had just paid. Total scam.
@@chrisj197438 Assuming it wasn't a very specific custom job (ie a ring in a style that they sell a lot of), presumably they'd pay at most what it would cost for them to make the next one for the display case. I don't think they make ~95% profit, so I think 5% is way too low -- probably more in the range of 25-35%?
Rolex aside (because they're not the best example of a premium watch), most of these things cost a lot of money not because of precious metals/gemstone content but because of either brand cache, extensive craftsmanship, or both.
I have a Rolex great watch and it was hard to watch u tear it apart but so freaking cool at same time! Lol glad to know Rolex uses solid gold which I assumed but I bet your the first person to extract the gold from a Rolex
I had no problem with you doing this to an already broken watch, but I never could get behind the What's Inside channel. It's just destruction of expensive things for no real reason. You dont learn stuff from their videos. You just see stuff break. What's the point?
To get silver out of ammonia solution, you as use sodium dithionite (just like you used sodium metabisulfite for gold). I found a local chemical supplier who actually has sodium dithionite, so I can just crash the elemental silver out of solution instead of cementing (which produces copper metal waste) or doing the lye and sugar process. But the copper method works great.
WI: "Hey lets send it to cody to see if he can fix it!"
Cody: "I bet they want me to melt down the watch."
I’m a kid ok? Jeez
Doug Anderson well that’s what I thought but no one is perfect :) 😉
DEY WANTED HIM 2 FIX IT? OMG THIS IS SO SAD! ALEXA PLAY ROBLOX DEATH SOUND
lmao
I really wanna know what Will said but he deleted his comment out of embarrassment
Cody is the perfect person to send stolen jewelry to and get it back untraceable.
Unless he uploaded it to UA-cam :)
DaToNyOyO It's all profit anyway.
10 cents on the dollar, thats ok for a fence
A lot of diamond are serialized at a microscopic level
u will have to pay him in the precious metals he extracts due to the cost of labor and chemicals he uses...0-o
and end up owing HIM $$ if he makes a vid about it just from the time spent editing XDDD
best just open an illegal mine in Africa, that's profitable...although somewhat immoral
You should do a video where you extract mercury from tuna.
lol i like this idea, but you would need a lot of tuna
He should come to India then
@@stabgan i don't think anyone wants to do that.
no he should extract mercury from freddy
@@oORoxas13Oo bobs or vagana
I love how much "I'm just a guy at home" vibe Cody has.
3:51 a swiss watch maker is having a heart attack when he sees this
Aatu Vaan I’m not a watch maker but I want to fucking die, that date just is very rare, the mother of all pearl dial with the diamond hour markers and diamond bezel is a rare piece to come by :(
@@jorgealdrettgomez2053 well on the plus side the ones that are left are even more rare now.
Luke A facts lol
Hahahahaha hahahahaha 😂
You are a WIZARD! Thanks for all your skills Cody!
WHAT'S INSIDE? FAMILY your so coooooool
I wish you could go to Alamo in Texas San Antonio
WHAT'S INSIDE? FAMILY Lincoln’s voice is so deep
WHAT'S INSIDE? FAMILY wussup
Aaaaaand im Here Hello.
Still not as golden as this gem of a channel
@@Skedge its a complinent
He has the combined intellect of Sans, Peter Griffin and Kirby. I'm fairly certain you are wrong.
@@meleefanboy3370 lol
amen brother, cody should pin this
@@Skedge thank u kanye. Very edgy
Up next: how much gold is in cody's hair
*Mercury
Thankyouverymuch
3000 dollars worth
wait for no that's how much his brain is worth the gold is 1500 dollars
how many different elements are in cody's body
cody's table is pretty filled with gold dust
When the test reactor was still operational at UVA my physics class took a field trip there and I supplied a hair sample from my beard for neutron bombardment analysis and there was in fact gold in my beard! : )
*sees the nilered glassware* i'm loving this youtube chemistry extended universe.
"unceremoiously rip them off from the watch" with that tone, you 've got to love Cody for just that!
Cody’s Lab in 20 years: Can my genetically modified CRISPR bees survive in a vacuum?
Space bees can finally be more hardcore than earth bees.
The Faceless Stranger earth bees those weaklings with my purple sun bees they can turn you into a balloon in seconds
The real question is how they fly ;)
@@perjohansson8099 Honey-farts
Do space bees feed on space flowers, or do they go from planet to planet without burning when entering atmospheres?
What happened to the mine series? It was one of my favourites.
James Anderson well you see his ranch is buried in snow? Lol
UA-cam happened.
IIRC the assay came back with much more lead in the ore than he was happy breathing and not enough other metals to be interesting isolating.
UA-cam doesn't like explosions, even when it's educational and sciency. It's a shame when you see some of the tripe they encourage.
Cody died in one of the explosions so it was cancelled.
send this to rolex under warranty and tell them you accidentally dropped it in some chemicals
Haha
The warranty only lasts 5 years. not even lifetime warranty on a 7000$ watch.
@@jort93z that's crazy
Crazy. My 10 dollar wrench has a lifetime warranty.
That's funny!!
As a watch enthusiast I cried...
The "What's inside?" channel is pretty much just "let's buy something most people couldn't afford or justify and destroy it."
@@Markle2k I hear that... I more like quietly screamed at my screen and then my heart broke a little.
@@Markle2k Agreed, they try to give any kind of insight but in the end it's just "OH LOOK IT HAS GEARS AND STUFF, COOL!!111"
@@Markle2k I remember when they sawed a pristine ibm pc 5150 in half. Not even flex tape can fix that.
As a watch enthusiast, I rejoice every time I see a Rolex meet its unmaker. ;-)
"Let me just wash that down with a bit more acid" - something I haven't heard since my rave days.
It'd be hilarious if they wanted you to repair it 😂
Or just run the x-ray gun on it
Your comment brought me so much joy you have no idea 😂
LOL
He did repair it lol
Cody reads the letter and it is talking about finding how much precious metals it may have can he find out and is there any way to recover those metals so he does this whole experiment getting the metals
Then later notices writing on the back of the letter he did not read before
Yes we would like to know how much the precious metals are worth as we are going to have it repaired for $300 and wondered it it will be worth that and if not it is a treasured family hairloom so we will keep it anyway if it is too expensive to fix LOL
Hears a scream from cody's house ... DOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I didn't read that part LOL
There's a watchmaker crying in a corner somewhere.
It was probably mostly made by machines anyway. Craftsmanship and mass production don't really go together.
Not on those high-end watches.
William Lesco, that's me
@@TonboIV 🤔🤔🤔
@@TonboIV actually there is many hundreds of hours of hand labor in each Rolex.
Y'all remember when Cody was out here blowing shit up. Straight making high explosives with glycerin and lemon juice
Here
I miss the Wild West version of UA-cam :(
@@beepthemeep12and chlorine ||-//
@@DavidRamirez-lq2co uwu
I remember the progression of his sugar rockets
Leaving watchmaking aside, your chemistry knowledge had just earned my subscription. Coming as a watch enthusiast, I do understand that the value of a watch is not based on the value of the raw material. More so for precious metal watches. To what extend is the question. This video will not generalize all brands/models but it does give us an insight. Thank you for uploading.
I can watch these for days! So much fun to watch even though I’ve seen it done before. Keep them coming Cody!
That's a £1000 watch strap you just dismantled for maybe a few £100 in scrap metal terms. It hurt to watch.
1: Destroy $1000 strap and turn it into scrap metal. 2: sell scrap metal. 3: buy $10 watch strap 4: keep leftover money and buy pizza or something.
And a grand or two movement that was probably repairable for about 10% of that cost. Whoops.
@@rubiconnn Just sell the strap, no need to turn it into scrap metal.
@@Eis_Bear I think that's the joke
It was already destroyed by the what's inside guy. He took a dremel to it...
Cody just casually builds his own furnace
@@devincoder4927 you can buy kilns for less then $100, it's takes mass production to be able to compete with mass production prices.
But what was the final purity of the gold?
24K
Whenever cody refines gold into a bead its 24K
probably the gold around the bezel was 18k and the band gold was 14k
When he refines it he take all the other metals out which makes it 24k
24 Karat Magic in the aaaaaaaaiiir
Those diamonds appeared to be around 0.10ct. It's hard to tell in the video but they were probably Imperfect grade i3M to i3O.
That means they'd be around $40 - $75 a piece. They looked very pink in the video, and I counted 50 of them. So you'd have at least $2500 in diamonds if they were $50 a piece i3O quality.
However, diamonds have an incredibly low resale value. So if you brought them in to a jewelry shop they'd probably give you less than $1000 for them all.
I'd be surprised if you could sell the diamonds for more than a couple hundred dollars. Diamonds aren't rare to begin with and the ones they use for this purpose are generally pretty low quality. All they have to do is sparkle.
They're higher quality than the ones they use in abrasives for sure. Those ones don't even sparkle
What is i30? Do you mean I3? Even if they were D/I3 diamond max rap is 35 each, I don’t know where are pricing diamonds but you’re 100% wrong.
Secondly, the diamonds are not even close to .10ct each. This is a Rolex Oyster Perpetual Datejust, looks like a men’s 41mm. That means the bezel is approximately 128 mm around, with 50 diamonds the largest stones you could fit would be 2.5 mm each - or .05 carats.
Lastly, this is a diamond bezel on a Rolex. Rolex is not going to use subpar I3 goods. These are almost 100% VS+ goods with G+ color.
Quit spouting garbage.
@@hunterbrown9152 Rolex is the lowest grade haute horlogerie. They are just a click above ETA driven timepieces, which by some watchmakers are still considered better. That being said you can't rate the diamonds by what their slapped on (although they are definitely not cutting tool grade either)...
Sketch1994 Go buy a Rolex and tell me what the goods look like.
You won’t find I clarity goods in Cartier pieces, you won’t find them on a Rolex. It would diminish the appearance of value and luxury. People don’t buy a Rolex anymore because it keeps great time, I have a cell phone if I want to keep track of time. It’s conspicuous consumption, that’s it.
I understand what you’re saying. I’m aware of where Rolex stands in the watch community. It is still a luxury piece, with luxury goods, with a luxury price tag.
your recovery videos are not only your best videos but the best recovery videos I have seen on UA-cam. Hope you keep doing them from time to time
Will you be getting rid of the X-ray gun in the future? I noticed you said "while I still have it"
He almost definitely meant "while I still have the watch in one piece"
@@InsaneThe haha that would make a lot more sense wouldn't it
Pretty high chance he might just be borrowing it from his university?
@@JustusLynetta nope, he bought it after a discussion on patreon
@@JustusLynetta he bought it with money from patreon
I'll let you know before I even watch this. Rolex's are mostly stainless steel. The money is in the quality of manufacture and the attention to detail, not the materials, especially a base model like this one.
And what about all those $500000+ watches?
7gs for a base model? Holy poop Batman!
@@christianheichel Yep, Rolex prices are pretty nuts. I really want one but I'll have to finish my Ph.D. and probably work a few years and probably hold off on kids if I want to make it happen, haha.
Agent J I definitely don't think that those prices have something to do with extreme accuracy and/or durability, that's why I'm asking.
I only know of their existence because corrupted Russian officials *really* like wearing $500000+ watches :D
@@tinldw Automatic watches are definitely not known for their accuracy or their durability. A very expensive watch like that is probably mostly brand name value and only then priced on rarity, the craftsmanship of the movement mechanisms, precious metals and gems, stuff like that. No expensive watch like that ever beats way cheaper watches in terms of functionality.
10:15 hey that's a nilered measuring flask
7:14 he said it there before. he has a nice choise for products ;)
Ur late
GrabTheVaseline no
Send me the diamonds, I can tell you their worth.
Trent Slichter hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
This one weird trick luxury watchmakers HATE!
:P
No the watches value is not in the precious metal but the movement and craftsmanship, the gold and diamonds only appeal to the rappers ect and add a little onto the value
Alchemy at its best Mr. Wizard, thanks for making this Video...
I love you Cody you make my nerdy hormones run wild
@@kokokam833 weird flex but ok
You missed the rubies on the clock internals
That's what I said!
They are worthless. You can buy them for way less than a dollar per piece. A usual automatic watch uses about 17 jewels. A luxury watch with date usually not more than 34. So it might be about 24 for the Rolex, which concludes in roughly about 20 dollar if they were new.
Not on an entry level Rolex...
@@ReNeyer Every automatic watch has jewles, even the cheap ones. But as 2 above said theyre basically worthless since theyre manmade.
They're synthetic, even in $100k watches they still use synthetic jewels in the movements
This kind of video is what my life has been missing. Welcome back, Cody! We've all missed you!
Goodness me! I could watch you for hours. You're so skilled at so many things. I'm going to make sure i show my daughter this one, she wants to be a scientist. Thanks for all your great videos.
Back to chemistry and gold. Love it, thanks Cody
You said "While I still have it" in reference to the x ray gun. Is it on loan? If so, how much longer will you have it for?
46 seconds.
It's because his next video is "how much gold & precious metals in an x-ray gun"
@@lilaclizard4504 he's buying an xray gun to see what's in his xray gun
He has it on loan from his uni
Jacky Fox I’m pretty sure he said he bought one... maybe he needed this one because his isn’t programmed with all the elements as he mentioned before
Everybody: 😐
Cody: "in case you were wondering..."
This would be like disassembling a Mercedes to see how much the scrap metal is worth lol
Send him one. I'm sure he would love to do it. XD
no not really a fair comparison. A Mercedes is a well made vehicle that is noticeable different in regards to its engineering, drive, performance, ex... A rolex is nothing like that. It tells time, no more accurately or better than a $5 watch. People assume it has thousands of $$ in precious metals or diamonds to make it hold its value
@@forsety2 Well both are status symbols. And it's a fascinatingly accurate mechanical device.
@@George-nx5lo And Rolexes are VERY well made automatic watches, if impractical.
@UCcolT5UQWfhjdKI5Wyu_o6Q over analysing piece of shit.
It was painfully obvious he was refering to the concept of the video and the breakdown not the use of the item
Yet another amazing video. Entertaining as well as informative. As a content creator myself, I highly admire your videos. Keep up the great work Cody!
true
i love the hidden NileRed plug. Good Guy Cody!
Same haha, that was great. I wonder if he got those from NileRed, maybe bought them as over stock or part of a bulk deal.
@SW627 Thats why i didint include a time stamp ;)
some of the best quality content on youtube is found right here on this channel
Next up: im gonna try to extract radium from this watch face
Chungus is a ded meme
It’s pretty easy, better if you do it from uranium ore, spoiler: he already has the supplies to do so and the first step done.
*Cody extracts radium from watch face*
*All government agencies:* Hey Cody, whatcha doin?
Technically it's tritium and those inserts were found in Luminox watches
Your a modern day da Vinci my boy. Keep the dream alive Cody. Express that mind of yours. You have such a gift. Use it to help others. I know u can.
Quite an amazing demonstration. Learned lots from it and I will never look at a Rolex watch in the same way again. It is amazing how little gold was actually in it. Reminds me of the old sayings, “All that glitters isn’t gold.” Five thumbs up. 👍👍👍👍👍 Mark
I like the new furnace, hope it works well for you.
What happened to cody's mine
It minds its own business.
.... I know the way out
@@misium sweet fancy moses! I laughed way too hard at that whole comment. My ten-year-old calls those dad jokes but somehow, despite it being over the internet, your comedic timing was perfect.
@@MrCytree oooooooooooooofffff
He wants to get explosive licenses before fooling with it.
It's also incredibly played out.
Why the hell do people continually ask about that series when he's addressed it multiple times?
Cody constantly makes me feel real dumb, but I love his videos.
This is the collab I didn’t know I wanted, as always Cody is an example of excellency on youtube
The band, bezel, and face could have been resold easily. Pretty decent market out there for that stuff for those people restoring watches.
The reason it is $7k, it not in the materials. It is in the craftsmanship and the quality. The gold Rolex uses is always 18K gold and the steel is a Rolex's own 904L steel, that is made to look ekstra special when polished. There is also the MOP dial with diamond hour marks and a fully encrusted bezel with diamonds, that of course adds up in the value. You also pay for the name Rolex, but that DateJust is actually worth a bit more than $7k, since their watches are highly sought of.
I'm pretty sure everyone knows this. Without the name behind it, it's not a 7k watch just as gucci and prada etc. would be valued far less.
This video is strictly about the material value, or did you get confused?
@@DeedlyDood More about the fact there have been around 10 different educated people working to make that watch. Also it takes around a year to complete the watch, that is also an expense you are paying for. The testing of the watch lasts a week. You are mostly paying for quality.
It takes Rolex about a week to build a watch from cutting the blanks to ebauche to decoration and plating. They produce over a thousand a day. When they say it took a year to make a watch they're talking about development.
So, basically, it's artificial price inflation
@Rasmus Berg Exactly! I typically like his videos, but I was getting annoyed when he kept suggesting it was gold filled and not 18K...
Look, I fixed your Rolex watch 😂 *shaking a cylinder of fluffy silver powder*
Rolex never uses plating on their watches but they do use lots of stainless
I don’t know if you still get notifications if someone comments on a older video.
But I’ve watched most of all your work. My uncle taught the jewelry business. But yet he died before telling how to get the chemicals.
How do you get the chemicals that you you use? Does it take a special permit or degrees, etc??
I would greatly appreciate it if you could take a moment to let me know. If you get this message. Thanks again for all your work in the videos!! You’re awesome!! I had little chem set as a child and wanted to be a chem professor. But life changes, especially when parents no longer care for one another so does your priorities change. But that’s old news. If you don’t mind answering these questions, I really do appreciate your time to answer them! Again thanks for the videos!! Keep them coming and keep up the great work you do for the wannabes out here, lol! If I wasn’t struggling to take care of my family, I would most definitely donate to your channel because it’s one of the few that are legitimate!! Thanks Charles
After yet another warning about the danger of excessive tuna consumption I couldn't help but wonder, "how many cans of tuna would it take to get an amount you can see", and you are the only human I am aware of that may find the answer interesting, and perhaps challenging. Really enjoy your work.
Nobody:
Cody: how to make your $7,000 watch loose 93% of its value!
nobody:
rolex: how to make 900% profit out of your gold (NOT A SCAM)
Paying for the best comes at a premium, but some people rolling in the dough won't even miss that money for a second. Whatever floats their boat, I say. Live and let live.
@Adam Defibaugh Theres a lot of factors that determine the value of a watch. Theres certainly not $7000 worth material there but that's not all your paying for.
Robin Lundqvist if you think about it $500 for the gold and $2k for the diamonds and you have to pay someone to make the watch by hand so really i can see the justification for the price. Also you can get this Rolex fro probably around $4k if u wanted.
Obviously money isn't his main priority. I respect that.
This is a hipsters wet dream: Deconstructed Rolex
why so low????
1:08 "I guess ill send it back to him" HAHA
So happy to see these videos again
Dude you just destroyed the watch industry. I love you.
Do I hear another episode in the precious metals recovery series?
No,and fuck you.
Poor watch, I hope TGV doesn't see this otherwise he's gonna faint...
Haha send it to him please!
Ahahaha make sure he sees this
Isn't funny how a $7000 watch tells the same time as a $15 quartz knock-off at wallyworld?
Right and my 1992 Honda civic transports me around town just like your 300k Rolls royce. haha sucker!
max med No. No it doesn’t at all.
Lol wow
@@chloehennessey6813 Does it take me from point A to point B? Yes. Case closed
max med it does not “transport you around town just like a Honda Civic”.
Not even freaking close. Have you ever driven a Rolls? Ever taken a ride in a Rolls?
max med Case closed. Yes your mental case might be closed thinking that Bs 😂
OMG Ican't believe i just find this guy on youtube....
He's like the cooliest/craziest guy EVER
The copper wire method you used to extract the silver reminds me of my hs chem class. My chem teacher had a dehydrator to dry off the silver and almost burned the school down because she left it on over the weekend. Always a pleasure to watch another video Cody!
Will you put it back together in next video?
plutonium87 _literally how_
Ra'Ahm Piece by piece.
Up Next: "I didn't want you to reduce my watch"
Will you ever bring back the mine?
It is buriwd in snow sir
He's abandoned the mine project, at least in the state of Utah. He talked about it a few weeks ago in another video.
He is in the mine. He turned his mine into a workshop. Dunno what experiments he does in there. His underground lair holds all the secrets of man.
To recover the silver, you should have put the AgCl into NaOH solution until it turns black, forming Ag2O. Then add sugar and get a large exotherm. Result is silver powder. To prevent silver evaporating, melt borax in the crucible and drop the prewarmed silver into it.
Regarding silver and ammonia: such solutions on standing form explosive mixtures, (solver azide) especially on standing!
Great video Cody - really clean and well edited. You da man
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Are u getting rid of the X-ray gun? Why u say "while I still have it"?
He means while the clock exist
@@mihaimera7837 Funny cause I got it while english is clearly non my native language ;) First time I hear that clock != watch. I guess they are pretty similar, no?
@@ZElTGElST In American English (no clue about British English) - Clocks are the time telling devices you hang up on the walls or leave on your nightstand, Watch(es) are the time telling devices you wear commonly on your wrist or body. Hope that clarifies :).
@@mihaimera7837 a watch is a clock, but not every clock is a watch ;)
@@QuackZack >wrist or body
i've never seen anybody wear a watch anywhere other than their wrist
also to expand a little, watch faces are typically small (somewhere between 1 and 2 inches in diameter) while clocks are bigger than that, 6+ inches in diameter and 2x4x8 inches for a digital clock without any fancy designs
edit: spacing
Diamonds are probably worth very little, no one wants to buy them because the price is artificially inflated by the diamond industry. They aren't too terribly rare.
You are correct Rhett having a Vietnam flashback. De Beers has a complete monopoly on the whole diamond industry. They're not even slightly rare. People want diamonds for veeeery slimy business tactics.
Another UA-camr would have made a 2 part series, each 10 minutes long of just making the furnace. For Cody, it's just filler content at the end. Love your channel man!
I am a beginner watch repair hobbyist and I posted this video to a Facebook group full of professionals and OH BOY did some of them freak out over this!
I should mention that I recently paid $150 for one "Third wheel" gear for an old Caliber 59 Rolex movement, so there is much more value/ worth in a watch like that in selling any good parts (or actually having the watch repaired) than there is in precious metal and gemstone recovery. It looked to me like about 1.5 carats of pretty nicely faceted gems.
I understand it was sacrificed in the name of science and I posted the video to FB for general interest to any jewelers who might have their own scrap meals to process, but the overwhelming reaction was the watch should have been repaired and it's destruction was a desecration of some kind. I myself think bejeweled Rolex's are ugly AF and good riddance to it.
What about using your pill press and smashing the silver back into a solid piece like you did with the gold?
Unlike gold, I don't think this'll work with silver.
Have him send it to hpc to see if tbey can do it in the press lol
"Did you send Cody that rock we cut apart to analyze what's in it?" "Yep, also sent that watch you inherited in to be repaired". At the watch maker "Why would they send me a cut apart rock?"
10:40 so cody you buy stuff from Niles red as well.
Was gonna like this comment but Ima let it sit at 69 likes
Well that was cool, interesting results.
Thanks Cody
Cody,
Every time I think you couldn't come up with a cooler idea than your last video, you surprise me. I'm into metallurgy and I just love your videos! You deserve every view. You work very hard studying, doing Science, thinking about video ideas and editing videos, that nobody sees. Thank you for making these videos!
Do you have a video about this Xray device 2:40
doesn't these handheld materiel-Xray-analyzers cost like an arm and a leg?
fascinating device.-
A Swiss watch is never truly broken. They can and should be serviced.
I would love to see someone fix this watch.
Cody is actually Shaggy
Dead meme
With 1% of his power he created this video
I mean he does look a little like shagster
In the game Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, you can make an electric furnace using heating elements and structural bits. I'd always wondered just how realistic that was. I know it wasn't the intent of this video, but thanks for answering that question, too, Cody.
You're an amazing human. You show people how cool it is to be smart. Thank you Cody.
Wow! From $7,000 to $500 who would've thought. I really wish you found out the estimate of the diamonds.
they're cheap old real small diamonds. probably under a grand
Diamonds are not actually as valuable as jewellers would have you believe. They wouldn't sell for a whole lot unless you could find a buyer as naive as a middle aged woman
One of my neighbors is a partner in a large jewelry store. He routinely travels to Europe and New York to buy diamonds. He said that the wholesale value of the diamonds used by Rolex when purchased in bulk are about $3 each.
I'd love to see you make/attempt to make Aerogel if possible
Psst, your pfp is adorable.
@@lir207 Thanks.
How can they just give a $7000 watch out to someone in the name of curiosity.
They are millionaires...?
Because Science!
They bought the $7000 watch and destroyed it right away for a video so it was a business expense
@@kevinhosea85 that is 7 million holy shit!!
@@kevinhosea85 a few too many 0s there bud
These models pre 2005( for the datejust that is) have hollow centerlinks. The new ones are solid. Even the 16710 and 16750 gmt models ( ended in 2008) have hollow steel centerlinks
Just binge watched the shit out of all the refining videos. Great channel Cody !
The bracelet was worth more as a bracelet then in gold.
Does anyone have an educated guess about the value of those diamonds? I'm guessing there's 48 of them.
Hardly anything. Diamonds are only valuable due to artificial scarcity, so they don't sell for much on the secondary market.
From what I can find, there are 48 bezel diamonds, plus the 10 dial diamonds. Rolex doesn't like to give exact diamond info for their watches. They're probably 0.02 carat diamonds, supposedly of fairly high quality. They should weigh 0.22g total.
If you were buying them (and it's hard to find prices for loose diamonds that small) you might pay $20 each. The diamond market being what it is, you might be able to sell them for $20 total.
Diamonds are worthless at that size. Even most pawn shops won't take em. 1 karat and up at a Leo grade might be worth something. The saying diamonds are forever is true. There is a an abundance of them and they don't go anywhere. Plus the industrial use for diamonds is very low. The only way to make real money with diamond is size. Most diamonds aren't large so to harvest larger diamonds means rarity which means money.
Arbbym9er
Diamonds are worthless. If you think I’m wrong go buy some from a jeweler then walk back in and attempt to sell them back. They won’t buy them from you or if they do you might get 5% what you had just paid. Total scam.
@@chrisj197438 Assuming it wasn't a very specific custom job (ie a ring in a style that they sell a lot of), presumably they'd pay at most what it would cost for them to make the next one for the display case. I don't think they make ~95% profit, so I think 5% is way too low -- probably more in the range of 25-35%?
Rolex aside (because they're not the best example of a premium watch), most of these things cost a lot of money not because of precious metals/gemstone content but because of either brand cache, extensive craftsmanship, or both.
Rolex is a very premium watch manufacturer
I have a Rolex great watch and it was hard to watch u tear it apart but so freaking cool at same time! Lol glad to know Rolex uses solid gold which I assumed but I bet your the first person to extract the gold from a Rolex
I freaking love these videos. Really relaxing to watch :)
I had no problem with you doing this to an already broken watch, but I never could get behind the What's Inside channel. It's just destruction of expensive things for no real reason. You dont learn stuff from their videos. You just see stuff break. What's the point?
They make millions, people get entertained.
It's like a shitty AvE
$465 dollars worth of gold
Can you reupload the Cody's Mine videos, or at least explain why they are taken down.
I'm glad to see you finally got away from that dastardly sidewalk light crossing.
To get silver out of ammonia solution, you as use sodium dithionite (just like you used sodium metabisulfite for gold). I found a local chemical supplier who actually has sodium dithionite, so I can just crash the elemental silver out of solution instead of cementing (which produces copper metal waste) or doing the lye and sugar process. But the copper method works great.
This is my favorite Cody’s Lab video just because I am a watch guy. Seeing a true Rolex breakdown of materials is so awesome